The UK government set doctors and health service managers, a tight deadline for putting in place proposed health service reforms, outlined in a white paper published last

Sweden's largest independent power generator called on the European Commission to block government plans to decommission the first of the country's 12 nuclear reactors this year. Sydkraft, which has

Wealthy landowners seem likely to keep the bulk of their European Union subsidies in spite of calls for a limit to hand-outs. Proposals by the European Commission, the EU's executive, would mean that

European Union scientists appeared to back a UK ban on the sale of T-bone steak in a move which could herald a toughening of Brussels rules to prevent the spread of BSE, or mad cow disease. After a

New computer viruses, which can damage companies software and cause costly disruption, have more than doubled in the past 18 months. The number of new viruses discovered each month has risen from

Consumer organisations are to urge governments to set up a database to track international trade in food, to prevent produce rejected as unfit by one country being dumped elsewhere. Consumers

A trend for New Zealand farmers to specialise in producing lean meat, rather than wool, from their sheep is having a disastrous impact on thier

Rafiq Mughal might have felt a sense of injustice last week after the publication of research which linked the symptoms of repetitive strain injury to physical damage to nerves in the arm and hand.

Some had thought that Peru might escape lightly this year from the unpredictable El Nino warm current, which periodically affects the west coast of South America. But in the past month severe

The European Commission yesterday called for disused offshore oil and gas platforms to be taken to land for disposal and recycling. But it said exceptions could be made for large concrete